The Book of Lies
by:
Mary Horlock (author)
On the English Channel island of Guernsey, a teenage girl’s Mean Girls-like experience pushes her to murder her best friend in a scandal, she will discover, that mirrors her uncle’s previously unknown story from the days of the island’s Nazi occupation during WWII. Told through the voices of...
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On the English Channel island of Guernsey, a teenage girl’s Mean Girls-like experience pushes her to murder her best friend in a scandal, she will discover, that mirrors her uncle’s previously unknown story from the days of the island’s Nazi occupation during WWII. Told through the voices of fifteen-year-old Cat Rozier and her long-dead Uncle Charlie—known to Cat only by the audio recordings he left behind—The Book of Lies lucidly illuminates the interior lives of a scorned modern girl with attitude and a defiant, faded man. With echoes of Nicole Krauss’s The History of Love and Jennifer McMahon’s Promise Not to Tell, Mary Horlock’s stunning debut novel is an unforgettable exploration of aspiration, anguish, and rebellion.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780062065094 (0062065092)
Publish date: July 19th 2011
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
History,
Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
20th Century,
Mystery,
Coming Of Age,
Crime,
World War II,
Holocaust
I did and I didn't like this book. I liked the voice. I thought the dynamics of the teenage relationship were well observed and written. I thought it had a really good sense of place which I found believable. What I didn't like - the secondary story: the account of what happened in the war. I found ...
The feral nature of adolescent girls and the vagaries of history...set on the Isle of Guernsey.The lies told by the Rozier family during the Nazi Occupation in WWII resound down the years to impact on fifteen year old Cat RozierCat the brain, the outcast, becomes fast friends with Nicolette, the new...
I had really high hopes, but felt the book fell significantly short of them. The book was boring at times and difficult to get through. Also, a bit predictable. Given my love of Historical Fiction and Mysteries, I thought as a combination of the two genres that I would really enjoy it. I didn't.
The Book of Lies was a fascinating read not just for its page-turning story, but also for the themes it explores.One of the themes is, as the title suggests, lies - in particular, the devastating damage they can cause, no matter how small, off-hand or innocent they seem at the time. But what I found...
Did you know that there were Nazi concentration camps on British soil during the Second World War? I didn’t, but having read The Book of Lies, I now know.There were four of them actually. And it’s highly appropriate that Cat be the one who told me about this. She is the narrator of Mary Horlock’s de...
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